Companies Act 1947

27 Particulars of directors and secretaries.

(1) Every company shall, in the register of its directors required to be kept by section one hundred and forty-four of the principal Act, include with respect to the secretary of the company .the following particulars, that .is to say—

(a) in the case of an individual, his present christian name and surname, any former christian name and surname and his usual residential address; and

(b) in the case of a corporation or a Scottish firm, its corporate or firm name and registered or principal office;

and accordingly—

(i) for any reference in the principal Act to a company's register of directors there shall be substituted a reference to its register of directors and secretaries; and

(ii) in subsection (2) of the said section one hundred and forty-four any reference to directors shall include a reference to "the secretary, and in subsection (4) thereof the references to subsections (1) and (2) thereof shall include a reference to this subsection.

(2) Where there are joint secretaries, the particulars required by the foregoing subsection shall be given with respect to each of them, except that where all the partners in a firm are joint secretaries, the name and principal office of the firm may be stated instead of the said particulars.

(3) The period within which a company is required to make a return to the registrar of companies under the said subsection (2) of the particulars specified in the said register shall, in relation to the particulars so specified with respect to any person who is the company's secretary at the date of the coming into force of subsection (1) of this section, be fourteen days from that date.

(4) Any notification to the registrar of companies under the said subsection (2) of a change among the company's directors and secretary or in any of the particulars contained in the said register shall specify the date of the change.

(5) In subsection (1) of the said section one hundred and forty-four the words " or managers " shall cease to have effect.

(6) The particulars required by subsection (1) of the said section one hundred and forty-four in the case of an individual who is a director within the meaning of that section—

(a) shall, in the case of a company subject to section thirty of this. Act, include the date of his birth and shall, in the case of any company, include particulars of any other directorships held by him, except as mentioned in the following paragraph;

(b) need not in any case include—

(i) particulars of directorships held by him in companies of which the company is the wholly-owned subsidiary, or which are the wholly-owned subsidiaries either of the company or of another company of which the company is the wholly-owned subsidiary; or

(ii) his nationality of origin, if his nationality is not his nationality of origin;

and paragraph (d) of subsection (1) of section one hundred and forty-five of the principal Act (by which every company to which that section applies is required in all trade catalogues, trade circulars, show cards and business letters to state with respect to every director his nationality of origin, if his nationality is not the nationality of origin) shall cease to have effect.

(7) Paragraphs (b), (d) and (e) of subsection (4) of section one hundred and forty-five of the principal Act (which relate to the construction for the purposes of that section of references to christian names, surnames and former christian names and surnames) shall apply also for the purposes of the said section one hundred and forty-four and of this section, and for the purposes of paragraph (b) of the last foregoing subsection—

(a) the expression " company, " shall include any body corporate incorporated in Great Britain; and

(b) a body corporate shall be deemed to be the wholly-owned subsidiary of another if it has no members ' except that other and that other's wholly-owned subsidiaries and its or their nominees.

(8) For sub-paragraph (ii) of the said paragraph (e) (which excludes, in the case of natural born British subjects, names changed or disused at an age less than eighteen) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph:—

“(ii) in the case of any person, a former christian name or surname where that name or surname was changed or disused before the person bearing the name attained the age of eighteen years or has been changed or disused for a period of not less than twenty years; or”.